Quote

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Half
Morbid
Spiritual
Difficulties
Women
Arise
States
Suffer
Men
Difficulty
Health
State
Suffering

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The truest self-respect is not to think of self.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
What I spent, I had What I kept, I lost What I gave, I have.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.
Henry Ward Beecher